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Fewer than 200 lobos are left in the wilderness of the American Southwest — so we can’t miss this chance to protect them.1 Now is our chance to win strong protection for Mexican gray wolves. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is in the process of revising its management plan for the Mexican gray wolf right now, and the agency is […]
Spring is here — and that means life is blooming once again. Pollinators need our protection. As temperatures warm, flowers are poking up from the thawed ground, and bees are stirring to pollinate them. But between pesticides and global warming, our best pollinators are still in trouble. We’ve put together a list of some small things you can do to help our bees […]
This Earth Day, will you help us protect America’s wolves?. We’ve made a lot of progress on wolf conservation, but we’re not done yet. Wolves have seen a lot of progress since the last Earth Day. A Wisconsin judge blocked the state’s fall wolf hunt, and now we have the most lobos in the wild since the 1970s.1,2 Most importantly, Endangered Species Act […]
Last spring, an estimated 1,500 wolves lived in Idaho. By the year’s end, a full third of those wolves had been killed.1 This is an emergency for wolves. Extreme wolf hunting legislation in Idaho, along with neighboring Montana and Wyoming, will allow wolf killing to continue with virtually no limits. If this isn’t an emergency for our wolves, then what is? We need […]
It’s not enough to say “Leave No Trace” — we need to take action to protect our parks from single-use plastics. Plastic pollution is piling up in national parks. While hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains, standing under the giant trees of Sequoia National Park, or climbing the red rocks of Arches and Canyonlands, the last thing you want to see is […]
We can all act to save monarchs in our own homes and communities by planting native milkweed. Here are answers to Environmental Action supporters’ most frequently-asked questions! Each year, monarch populations are plummeting. Roughly 99% of western monarchs have disappeared — that’s millions of missing butterflies.1 We can all act to save monarchs in our own homes and communities by planting native […]
Did you know this about wolves? Wolves are featured in countless fairy tales — often as a frightening villain. For some, the “big bad wolf” is the only frame of reference they have for what wolves are like. But what are wolves really like? It’s time to put the myths aside and get the facts on gray wolves. Myth: Wolves are dangerous to […]
In just the first months of Montana’s hunting season, hunters killed nearly 1 in 5 of Yellowstone’s wolves.1 Yellowstone’s wolves are in danger. Three-quarters of those deaths occurred after wolves crossed the park’s boundary in Montana. Those deaths wouldn’t have occurred without recent changes in Montana law making it much, much easier to kill wolves. This situation is unsustainable, and if nothing changes […]
It’s birthing season for the North Atlantic Right whale, a time of both hope and danger for the critically endangered species. Fishing lines threaten Right whales. At least nine new calves have been born so far this birthing season, which typically lasts from December to March.1 This spring, they’ll face a perilous migration northward, where fishing lines, such as the vertical lines […]
If we took a look inside a wolf pack, what would we see? Wolf packs are cooperative families. Many expect to find a strict hierarchy — alpha wolves on top, omegas on the bottom. But the reality isn’t quite so straightforward. Packs aren’t gangs led by domineering alphas — in reality, they’re cooperative families.1 And the way these families form and operate can […]